—and from him narrated: his grandson Abū Manṣūr Saʿd ibn Saʿīd al-Khaṭīb; Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-ʿIjlī; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faraj al-Ṭawīl; Abū Tammām Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Burūjirdī; and others besides.
Al-Samʿānī relates: “I heard Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faraj say, ‘Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad the preacher was an elderly shaykh, endowed with miraculous graces.’”
Al-Kiyā Shīrwiyah al-Daylamī also praised him, describing him as truthful and devout, and stated that he was born in 381 AH.
He passed away on the fifth of Dhū al-Qaʿda in 468 AH.
In that same year, on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, the ruler of Aleppo, Nasr ibn Maḥmūd ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Mirdās, became drunk, mounted his horse at the time of ʿAṣr, and ordered the looting of the Turkmen camped at al-Ḥāḍir. One of them shot him in the throat with an arrow and killed him; his brother Sābiq (1) then assumed power. Oppression, indeed, is its own downfall.
168 – Ibn Mandah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAbdī *
The shaykh, the imam, the eminent hadith scholar and teacher, the great authority and prolific author, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the great ḥadith master Abū ʿAbd Allāh (2) Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn